Editing Karl Gordon Henize (section)

==Early life and education==
Karl Henize was born in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], on October 17, 1926.{{sfn|Shayler|Burgess|2007|p=513}} He grew up on a small dairy farm outside Cincinnati, and his boyhood heroes were [[Buck Rogers]] and Sir [[Edmund Hillary]], the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.<ref name=JPL4/> Henize was fascinated with space at a young age. Since space travel had not happened yet during his childhood, he became interested in astronomy. Henize built his own telescopes and read every book on astronomy in his school's library. He joined the [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]], and his only merit badge was in astronomy.<ref name=tce>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30893141/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Cincinnati's Astronaut|last1=Benningfield|first1=Damond|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|date=July 12, 1985|page=B-1|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

His hobbies included home [[computers]], [[stamp collecting]], [[mathematics]], and [[astronomy]], and he also enjoyed [[racquetball]], [[baseball]], skin [[Underwater diving|diving]], and [[mountain climbing]].

Henize attended elementary school in [[Plainville, Ohio|Plainville]] and [[Mariemont, Ohio]]. The school was small, three or four rooms, and did not contain a library.<ref name=tce /> He also attended high school in Mariemont, where he played baseball and was on the tumbling team.<ref name=tce /> Due to the war, Karl elected to not finish high school, instead entering the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]], which first took him to [[Denison University]] in Granville, Ohio, and then to the [[University of Virginia]]. World War II ended before he received his Naval Commission, so he became a member of the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]], reaching the rank of [[lieutenant commander]] and retained a draft status of A1 until being required to give that up when he became an astronaut in 1967. While at the [[University of Virginia]], he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[mathematics]] in 1947,{{sfn|Shayler|Burgess|2007|p=513}} and a [[Master of Arts]] degree in [[astronomy]] in 1948,{{sfn|Shayler|Burgess|2007|p=513}} while also carrying out research at [[McCormick Observatory]]. He was awarded a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in astronomy in 1954 by the [[University of Michigan]].{{sfn|Shayler|Burgess|2007|p=513}}<ref name=wapo />

Henize married Caroline {{nee|Weber}} in Ann Arbor, and they had four children: Kurt, Marcia, Skye, and Vance.<ref name=tce2>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30891763/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Cincinnati's Astronaut|last1=Benningfield|first1=Damond|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|date=July 12, 1985|page=B-4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>